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Thomas Jefferson

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If God is just, I tremble for my country.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Be polite to all, but intimate with few.


— Thomas Jefferson


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In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.


— Thomas Jefferson


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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Force is the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism.


— Thomas Jefferson


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As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.


— Thomas Jefferson


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For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.


— Thomas Jefferson


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I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.


— Thomas Jefferson


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Removing or preventing corrupting dependence would enable men to be equal in practice. At age 16 Jefferson entered the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg and first met the law professor George Wythe who became his influential mentor. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions which if not covered will end in their destruction which is already hit by the gamblers in corruption and is sweeping away in its progress the fortunes and morals of our citizens.

Thomas Jefferson (April 13 1743 (April 2 1743 O. Elected Vice President in 1796 when he came in second to John Adams of the Federalists Jefferson opposed Adams and with Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which attempted to nullify the Alien and Sedition Acts. In 1803 President Jefferson initiated a process of Indian tribal removal and relocation to the Louisiana Territory west of the Mississippi River in order to open lands for eventual American settlers.

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